Lost Arrow Spire: A pillar of granite that rises thousands of feet above the Yosemite valley floor. We climbed the tip of the spire from the valley rim and hung out on the summit for an afternoon before heading back to have a swim... ...Continue Reading

We could never see the summit, and usually not the base. The wall exerts a gravity perpendicular to the rest of the Earth's, a pull that only vaguely counteracts the massive yawing abyss, the sky, that is on every other side of you; below, above, and behind... ...Continue Reading